NPD Global Product Manager

Medtronic; Georgia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, seeks an NPD Global Product Manager for electrophysiology innovations. You will translate market insights into strategy, define requirements, and drive roadmaps with R&D, Regulatory, and Sales teams to advance solutions from concept through launch.

Join a fast-paced, global team that values patient safety, quality, and collaboration, with onsite work at least four days a week to foster cross-functional growth and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business or related field.
• Advanced degree (MS/MBA/PhD) preferred for senior roles.
• Experience in medical device product management or healthcare markets.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer and market insights into product strategy, requirements and roadmaps.
• Identify unmet needs and growth opportunities; drive launches from concept to launch.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Sales and marketing.

Skills

Product management

Market research

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

VOC/VOB

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business

MS, MBA or PhD (preferred)

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 Sep 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Join Medtronic as an NPD Global Product Manager and help shape the future of electrophysiology innovation. In this high-impact role, you will translate customer and market insights into product strategy, requirements, and roadmaps; identify unmet needs and growth opportunities; and partner with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Sales, and regional marketing teams to advance meaningful solutions from concept through launch. We are looking for a strategic, collaborative, and commercially minded product leader with medical device experience who can influence across functions, engage customers and physicians, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working onsite a minimum of 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross‑functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

At Medtronic you can begin a life‑long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Formulates and reviews corporate short and long‑range plans, goals, and objectives for specific product or product line, in order to define and maintain the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Conducts competitive product analysis and market research of product consumer behavior and professional audience.
• Determines the profitability and viability of new products or product enhancements. Drive market analysis, segmentation and positioning development.
• Identify unmet customer needs and commercial opportunities.
• Develops product user needs and marketing strategies and tactics to ensure effective product placement relative to market opportunity, working closely with product development for a specific product, brand, or product area over its entire life cycle.
• Leads voice‑of‑customer (VOC) and voice‑of‑business (VOB) activities to guide the product user needs at each stage of product development partnering with all markets, and convert insights into clear product requirements.
• Works with other functions to finalize product specifications. Work closely with R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Sales, Clinical, and Medical Affairs to ensure alignment on product definition and development.
• Serves as technical adviser, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.
• Constructively garners input and challenges assumptions with Global counterparts to refine product decisions.
• Positively represents the company by visiting accounts and users to solicit feedback on company products and services.
• Consolidates and disseminates a deep understanding of the competitive global EP Ablation landscape by region.
• Supports regional training of marketing and sales teams.
• Develop and leverage marketing insights to simplify segmentation, product positioning, message development, channel identification & tool creation and execution to meet business objectives.
• Network with colleagues in other divisions and cross‑functional departments to align strategies and opportunities.
• Demonstrate a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality.

Min Requirements:

• Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have broad knowledge of project management.
• Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, clinical or related Healthcare/Biomedical field
• 5+ years of work experience in marketing, strategy, business, and/or sales operations
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in product management in a commercial medical device setting
• Excellent Project Management skills and ability to work cross‑functionally
• Must have ability to drive communications strategies and influence stakeholders
• Proven Business Acumen
• Experience defining and utilizing a broad range of secondary research, primary qualitative and primary quantitative research techniques to identify and address customer insights into clinical data
• Ability to create and sustain relationship development/collaborate with a broad set of stakeholders, Marketing, Clinical, R&D, Health Economics, and Sales
• Clinical and/or product marketing experience
• Experience with market and revenue modeling.
• Outstanding customer service skills, both internal and external to the organization.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self‑starter that anticipates and has a desire to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to collaborate with and influence key stakeholders without direct authority.
• Flexibility to travel up to 20% (including international) in support of tradeshows, internal meetings and customer programs as required.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively to meet deadlines.
• Advanced degrees including MS, PhD or MBA.
• Specific medical device experience in the electrophysiology field.